The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net ...

When Susannah Wright graduated from Rice in 2018, the prospect of returning as faculty was nothing more than a pipe dream.

Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken ...

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Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905. Homer and his Guide 1874 via Wikimedia Commons Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art forms. It is the art of manipulating words into rhythm and meaning to ...

The Trojan War was the famous conflict between the Trojans and the Greeks. But surprisingly, the city of Troy itself was ...

The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid [Tate] ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

A centuries-old painting that graced the walls of London’s Tate Gallery for more than three decades will soon be returned to the descendants of a Belgian art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis ...